Monthly Archives: December 2006

What I’m reading, Drucker’s knowledge work, discover your strengths and getting things done

I love how things, especially ideas can join up. I’m reading Now, Discover your Strengths(NDYS) by Marcus Buckingham. (After a less than subtle hint Owl was gracious enough to give us a copy for Christmas). I’m also gradually working through Getting Things Done (GTD), a self-help book by David Allen promising to guide us to [...]
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Android, I mean Actroid anyone? (human-like natural yet charming)

Yup, it’s comming… “It has news hooks and high eye-catching effects. It can be utilized to play active part for many occasions”… what on earth are ‘news hooks’, looks?
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skimmed: gapingvoid: …: how to be creative

Coffee-Shop Schmuck, Roy Bloementhal soptlights gapingvoid in a virtual-surf-report (as heard on SA-FM), I’d like to highlight gapingvoid: how to be creative 29. Whatever choice you make, The Devil gets his due eventually. Selling out to Hollywood comes with a price. So does not selling out. Either way, you pay in full, and [...]
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Skimmed: Edge: BEWARE THE ONLINE COLLECTIVE By Jaron Lanier

Bloody good point… What’s to stop an online mass of anonymous but connected people from suddenly turning into a mean mob, just like masses of people have time and time again in the history of every human culture? It’s amazing that details in the design of online software can bring out such varied potentials in human [...]
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Skimmed: Looking back from 2025, the year 2006

Noticed this while downloading some whitepapers from ZD-net, one of the most entertaining if also most superficial reviews of 2006 I’ve seen. Looking back at Web 2006 from 2025 by ZDNet’s Dan Farber — Looking back from 2025, the year 2006 will be remembered for the “You,” the solipsistic Time Magazine Person of the Year [...]
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Snapshots: Béo with ladder, digger fetish and water features at Mellrose Arch

Sleep seems to have escaped me for the moment so I thought I’d pop ’round here and upload a few pic from the last day or three. It’s not insomnia or any such drama – just that in my experience there is a tiny little critical phase of the falling asleep process which, when screwed [...]
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Amplitude, rough logo concept, take one…

So here is a first rough go at a logo for the new, ‘New Marketing’ podcast ‘Amplitude‘ by South Africans Mark Stopforth & Dave Duarte, for South Africans. (Oh dear, there goes my bandwidth :-) ). The first episode is
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Merry Xmas to you

By way of saying merry Xmas, to you specifically, yours, and the world at large…
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Béo with laptop

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Funny: sorry that the US president is an idiot

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